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Thai Parliament Unanimously Approves PRTR Draft Law, Advancing Environmental Transparency and Public Health Rights
The Thai Parliament unanimously approved in principle the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) draft law
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Report: Indonesia’s Chronic Forest Fires – 2023
Greenpeace Indonesia's latest analysis shows that the indicative area of forest and land fires in 2023 was 2.13 million hectares. This figure is almost twice the size of the government’s data.
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Green groups file landmark complaint to Malaysian Human Rights Commission for public inquiry into haze pollution as a human rights violation
A coalition of Malaysian civil society organizations is calling for a public inquiry and investigation into the sources of both domestic and transboundary haze with the aspired aim of getting systemic solutions for overcoming haze pollution and protecting our right to clean air.
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Seven Indonesia’s State Officials Found Negligent for Jakarta Air Pollution
After two long years and eight sentencing delays, The Central Jakarta District Court ruled in favour of citizens fighting for clean air.
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PM2.5 air pollution behind an estimated 160,000 deaths in world’s 5 biggest cities in 2020
PM2.5 air pollution was behind approximately 160,000 deaths in the world’s five most populous cities in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of IQAir data from a live Cost Estimator
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Methodology: Estimating the cost of air pollution in world cities (2020)
The Cost Estimator is an online tool that estimates the real-time health impact and economic cost from fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in major world cities.1It is deployed in a collaboration between Greenpeace Southeast Asia, IQAir and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). Estimates of real time health and economic…
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Burning Up: Health Impact of Indonesia’s Forest Fires and Implications for the Covid-19 Pandemic
As Indonesia braces for the 2020 forest fire season, a timely review of data of the effect on smoke-affected communities shows consecutive governments have been consistently and massively underestimating the impact on human health.
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Real-time counter tracks cost of air pollution during COVID-19
The cost of air pollution counter, developed by Greenpeace Southeast Asia and IQAir AirVisual, reveals the impact of air pollution in 28 cities around the world since 1 January, 2020.
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Double Standard: How Japan’s Financing of Highly Polluting Overseas Coal Plants Endangers Public Health
'Double Standard Report' reveals the deadly consequences of the double standard, in terms of premature deaths caused by air pollution, and evaluates how many of those deaths could be avoided if the projects funded by Japan overseas applied the same emission limits as the new coal power plants in Japan.
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Greenpeace calls out the true cost of coal at coal industry event in Bali, Indonesia
Major coal industry event Coaltrans started today in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, less than a week after the latest data from the World Health Organization showed that nine out of ten people are breathing air containing dangerous levels of pollutants.
